im a red panther (got from andrew)

You are Red Panther, and unlike your smart outlooks, you talk slowly.
You are amiable, cheerful and open-hearted person.
But you can be shy when meeting new people, and find it difficult to make conversation with someone who you have met for the first time.
Unexpectedly from your smart looks, you possess great power inside.
You would put in great effort to go ahead of the times, and be successful.
You sometimes can have no sense of reality, and when this tune in with your looks, it brings out emotional sensitivity and sharp artistic sense within you.
Because you tend to lack perseverance and endurance, you may easily give up work that you had started.
Although you look as though you can make up your mind quickly, in reality, you tend to ponder a lot.
You can not make decisions or act with confidence.
But you can reflect back at your weakness and tries to over come that.
This attitude gets you the trust and affinity of the people around you.
You don't lose hope, and tries to progress.
But you can be easily affected by your mood, and therefore should try to be consistent with your achievements.

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A simple 'I Believe'

I believe in You Lord Jesus
I believe You are the Son of God
I believe You were sent by the Father to save me
I believe You paid the price for my sins
I believe You did it because You loved me enough, not to let me perish
I believe He sent You for the same reason

I believe You are the only mediator between God and man
I believe no matter how far I have walked away from You, I can still turn back to You
I believe no matter how low I have fallen, I can still rise up and return to You
I believe You can change my life around
I believe You can strengthen me and make me whole
I believe You can give me a new life and make me holy

I believe there is only One God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
I believe You are the Alpha and the Omega
I believe You are the Word of God and the Bread of life
I believe You are the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords
I believe You are the answer to every problem
I believe You are also the solution amen

"Come Holy Spirit, please touch each and every heart that will come across this message. Open our hearts to Your Word and Your Truth and let us walk in total abandonment to You. Bless us all and keep us from the snares of the enemy. Glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit now and forevermore.

Court Rules in Favor of After-School Bible Clubs

Saturday, 23 August 2008

Good News: Court Rules in Favor of After-School Bible Clubs

A federal court ruled Monday that a Christian club can hold after-school Bible studies at Virginia public schools, following a lawsuit by Liberty Counsel.

The court said the Williamsburg-James City County school board engaged in discrimination when it charged Child Evangelism Fellowship a fee to hold its Good News Club on campus, while allowing Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other organizations to meet for free.

"Every public school ought to have a Good News Club," said Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel. "The kids love them, parents appreciate them and the First Amendment protects them.

"Of all places, Good News Clubs should have been welcome in Williamsburg and James City — the birthplaces of American liberty. Now, they are welcome."

Truly Alone

Switching from excruciating pain, to gasping for life, the water breather quickly sucks oxygen, and you are born into being------- alone.

Life's Dreadful adventures follow.
Now it's they didn't ask me to go along,
who needs them anyhow.
They didn't pick me, who want to play anyway.
They didn't call, who cares -----alone again

Life offers " loneliness" in a roomful of people

Work fills time; competition exacerbates becoming a Team player. Togetherness is a concept in futility.
Solomon's response to life ..... all is vanity!

Being Single has a built-in consequence ----dilemma alone

Being, Married where two become one (truthfully) -----still alone.

One's old Vintage tests family unity in the rocking chair alone.

Death knocks and although watched by others. --- stepped into alone.

Thought to Ponder
From beginning to end the obvious is our clue, without Him we are -----left alone.

Eternal Christ (Hebrews 13:1-16)

In the late summer and early fall of 2005, the evil twin sisters, Katrina and Rita, brought life as we knew it along the Gulf Coast to a sudden end. Thanks to the quick generosity and tireless efforts of Christians from around the country, we in Louisiana have rebounded significantly from the devastation wrought by those hurricanes. But when asked if things are back to normal, we describe our situation now as the “new normal.” While our lives have returned to a semblance of normalcy, we have been forever changed and will never again know “normal” as it once was.

Our hymnbooks now fall open to the old Mosie Lister song, “’Til the Storm Passes By.” In an earthly pilgrimage in which the only thing that seems constant is change, we are continuously comforted that an eternal and unchanging God will keep us “safe ’til the storm passes by.” Of course, we understand storm is a metaphor for the tempest created in our lives by sin.

A STAND-ALONE TRUTH
As the book of Hebrews moves to a conclusion, the writer—having exalted Christ as the supremely sufficient Savior of lost mankind—makes a significant statement: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). That verse is one of the great stand-alone passages of Scripture, one of those texts that can easily be plucked from its context to become the foundation of a biblically solid sermon or lesson on the eternal, unchanging nature of Christ.

This doctrine is so important that it is a recurring theme in the book of Hebrews. We see it in the opening verses of the epistle where Jesus is described as the creator and sustainer of the universe (Hebrews 1:2, 3). Later, the writer declares that since the priesthood of Christ is permanent, “He is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them” (Hebrews 7:25). He “offered for all time one sacrifice for sins” (Hebrews 10:12), and “will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him” (Hebrews 9:28). The eternal God who created Heaven and earth stepped into time and space to sacrifice himself in atonement for the sins of man, and he lives to return so that salvation can be brought to its ultimate fulfillment.

Simply put, salvation is possible because “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”

THE TEACHING IN CONTEXT
Hebrews 13:8 is a powerful statement by itself, but it also expresses an empowering reality when its context is considered. That verse is sandwiched within a list of exhortations to believers, and it may seem completely out of place to the casual reader. But every theological statement or discussion in Scripture is intended to result in some practical, down-to-earth, rubber-meets-the-road expression as that truth impacts the life of a believer. All the theological truths discussed in Hebrews have established the superiority and sufficiency of Christ as our Savior, and now the writer wants us to know the practical effect that unwavering faith in an eternal and unchanging Christ will have in our lives.

• The faith of your leaders. To understand the impact of Hebrews 13:8 in its immediate context, begin in verse 7 with the exhortation to imitate the faith of your spiritual leaders.

Most of us have been blessed to know men and women of God who positively influenced our lives. What sets them apart as worthy of imitation? According to this passage, the people whose faith we should imitate are those who consistently proclaim and live the truth of the gospel to the end of their days, demonstrating that they are led by the unchanging Christ.

Now, if we truly believe Jesus Christ is eternal and unchanging, and if we imitate spiritual leaders and their same conviction, the truth of verse 8 will branch in every direction and will impact every area of our lives.

• Lives changed. Beginning with Hebrews 13:1, brotherly love stands out as a hallmark of a life controlled by an eternal Christ, especially expressing itself in hospitality to fellow Christians and sympathy for those being persecuted. Marital fidelity and moral purity (v. 4) are other important effects, especially in a world where those virtues are increasingly scarce. According to verses 5 and 6, belief in an unchanging Christ is key to living a contented life; such a life is achieved when materialism is overcome by putting our complete trust in God’s promise to care for us.

• Hold firmly to grace. Beginning with verse 9, readers are encouraged to hold firmly to the doctrine of grace when being courted by false doctrine; standing firm is made possible by faith in a Savior who does not change. In this section, the contrast is between the vanity of pursuing righteousness through ritualism and legalism versus having our hearts and minds transformed and our lives energized by trusting in the unchanging grace of God.

• Exalt the Lord in worship. Worship that continually exalts the Lord is, according to verse 15, fostered by faith in the eternality of Christ, as is service to others in verse 16. One final effect of that conviction is the willingness and ability to be submissive to authorities.

EMPOWERED AND DIRECTED
Since “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever,” there is no area of our lives he will not impact. The exhortations based on this doctrine of an eternal Christ touch our private lives, marriages, church relationships, nonchurch associations, vocations, citizenship, and, most importantly, our eternal relationship with God.

The physical and spiritual storms of life will come. Survival depends on unwavering trust in an eternal and unchanging Lord. But only occasionally is life about surviving storms; it is more often a matter of daily living. For the Christian, that daily life is also empowered and directed by a living Savior who is constant and unchanging.